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J. P. WRIGHT METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR TREATING MATCH SPLINTS Filed Ncv.,i5. -1924 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 Nov- 3, 1925- 1,560,010

'. J.- P. WRIGHT METHOD or AND usms FOR TREATING mvrca srmu'rs Filer! Nov. 13. 1924. 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 Patented Nov. 3, 1925.

UNITED STATES I 1,560,010 PATENT OFFICE.

JACOB P. WRIGHT, O'F BAR-BERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COM- PANY, or CHICAGO,

ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR TREATING MATCH SPLINTS. I

Application filed November 13, 1924. Serial No. 749,596.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB P. IVRIGHT, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of and Means for Treating Match Splints, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a method of and means for treating match splints preparatory to the formation of the match heads; having reference more particularly to the treatment of splints in a continuous match making machine of the class wherein splints are cut from blocks of wood and inserted row by row into a carrier by means of which the splints are transported in spaced parallel relation through impregnating, paraffining, and head composition-applying instrumentalities.

In the cutting operation projecting fine thread-like fibres are produced on the surfaces of the splints, which fibres, when present at the free extremities of the splints,

' take up the match composition as the splints pass over the latter, and in consequence large imperfect heads on individual splints and also irregular head portions connecting two or more adjacent splints, are formed.

The object of my inventionis to overcome the defective head formation above mentioned; and to that end the invention com prises the step of pressing the fibres, when wet, against and longitudinally of the sides of the splints, which fibres, being unresisting, cling to and remain in close contact with the splint bodies.

In carrying out my invention in a simple and efficient way I provide the impregnating solution pan, which is located beneath the path of the splint carrier, with a comblike structure of such character as to rub the surfaces of the splints upwardly during the immersion of the splints in the liquid contents of the pan, as will be hereinafter particularly described. The precise scope of the invention will be defined in the appended claims.

In the annexed drawings Figure 1 is a sectional elevation of a por tion of a continuous match machine equipped with combined splint impregnating and fibre rubbing means embodying the principle of my invention.

Fig. 2 is a plan, enlarged, of one end of from which latter the impregnating pan and a cellular structure arranged therein for rubbing contact with the pro ectlng thin surface fibres of the splints- Fig. 3 1s a transverse vertical section of a portion of the splint carrier and the underlying impregnating pan, the latter being represented in partly raised position pre-,

paratory to the engagement of its cellular structure with the depending splints on the carrier.

Fig. 4c is a side elevation of the'carrier and a cross-section of the underlying pan and its contained cellular structure, said pan being represented in its normaldown position.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates a portion of an endless travelling carrier into which the upper ends of succeeding rows of splints are inserted as rapidly as they are cut from a block of wood at the cutting and setting station of a match machine, which carrier transports the splints through the match-making cycle, including the impregnating pan 6 which precedes the usual drier,

the paraffin bath and the head composition applying mechanism.

The pan 6 contains a solution of material, such, as ammonium phosphate, into which the depending splints on the carrierare im mersed, which solution impregnates the individual splints and is adapted to prevent their after-glow when the splints, as complete matches, are ignited and the flame extinguished. The wet splints as they progress through the drier are dried preparatory to their dipping in the p-araffin'bath, the splints pass to and through the head-composition on the usual composition-applying roller or rollers.

The splint carrier 5 herein illustrated comprises a continuously moving chain of hingedly connected plates having rows of perforations therein adapted to receive and hold the'upper ends of the match splints; and the pan 6, which is located beneath the path of the carrier, has the capacity of receiving at one time the groups of splints depending from two adjacent carrier plates. In the present instance this pan has a fourwa-y motion in timed relation to the continuous travel of the carrier; that is to say, the pan has an upward movement toward the carrier, a horizontal and downward movement concurrently with the travel of the carrier, an'da return h'orizonta lmovementto the normal or starting 'positio'n,--th-e downward movement of the pan be1ng sl0w as compared with its upward movement.

In this way the splintsbreach-succeeding pair of plates are immersed in and effectually treated with the liquid contents' ofth'e pan. The pan, which is vertically guided in a horizontally-movablebed 7, is 1 eXi-bly suspended by links I 8 from rocker-arms S) that are actuated by means of a, suitable cam 10 to eifect a rising" and fallingmotion of the pan-. The bed, which is supported' and guided in a drip pan 10, is connected by means of links 1-1 to arms 12 depending from cells' 17 corresponding in number and posi tion with the splint receiving perforations of two adjacentcarrier the pan is raised the cells receive the respective splintsdepending from the plates.

plates; so that when The'cells' are preferably square incrosssection and' are-each of an area to PEPIYIIU their' slidin g' reception of the splints.- The walls of'th'ecells, ing anexten'ded rubbing eifect on -th'e'surfaces of'the splints during the elevation of respective thus exert and; while wet;

pressin gi: their projecting against th'e bodies of the respective splints.

2. -A process of" makingematches having wood splints, comp-rising immersing the splints in an impregnating liquid and at the same time pressinggtheir projecting fine surface fibres against and longitudinally of thebodies Of 'the'q'espective splints.

3. In a matchmaking machine of the class described having asplin't-carr'ier, and means for"tr'eatin g: the splint-s borne by the carrier with animpre'gnatirrg: liquid means for pressi'ng the" projecting fine surface fibreso'f thewet impregnated splints against and=longitu'di-nally ofthe bodiesof the respective splints;

l. In a-matchnialnng machine-'of theclass describedhavin g 'a splint car'rier and meansfor" treating thesplints b'orne the carrierwith- I an impregnating liquid, means for" pressingof the splints a'g-ai-nst an-d longitudinally of I the bodies of the immersion oftlre' sp'lin't's in theimp reg nating r liquid-'2 I I 5.111 a matcl anaking' maclfine-or tli e cla'ss described havinga 'splint' carrier-, a; pan

:th'e:projecting-"fine surface fibres the respective splints during adapted to contain impregnating liquids and T 1 means for effecting a relative movement be tween the carrier? and the pan whereby the splints borne by the 'carrie'r areQimmersed in the pan; press theprojecting wet fibresof the splints upward against'the bodies of the splints." naturally remain in this position, and in and I longitudinally consequence the formation" of "imperfectheads on the splints when they pass throu the composition on mouths of the cells are preferably outward faces which contactwith the 'lower ends of in and separated from th'e 'liqurd contentssplints that may happen to be slightly out of vertical alignment with e therespective misplaced ensuring thelr uni-formpass'a'g cells, thus straightening the" splints and through the head compositionw It is to the composition rolleris obviated as previously HIBDUIODECl." The" be understood thatl do not limit my inventlon to the particular OOHStTUCtlOD and-separatedfrom the 'liqui d contents of the" pan-, a fcell u lar structure in said pan formed and positionedto receive the respec tive splints during the relative immersing: movement and at the same time to push the projectingfine'"" surface fibresof the splintsupwardly and longitudinally of the" bodies of -the splint 6. 111- amatchf making machii'ie ofwhe 'class described hai' i'nga splintcar-Tier, a

pan adapted to contain"impregnating 'liquid,

and means fow effecting a relative movement "between the :carrlef-and pan'whe'r-eby the splints bo'rne by the carr' ler are immersed ticalcells' of such crossseetional arela as' to receive -the re's-pectiv'e' splints dukring the: relative 'immer'sing movement and at-' the sam'e time to 'push tlie projecting fine sur face fibres of the splints upwardly and 1 1011- gitudi nally of the bcdies'cf the splints.

Signed' at Barberton,--i1'1 the county" of Summit and-' St'ate' of Ohio this 4 day of November A. D. 1924. p h

JACOBP. WVRIGH T, 

